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View article: Career and Technical Education as a Conduit for Skilled Technical Careers: A Targeted Research Review and Framework for Future Research
Career and Technical Education as a Conduit for Skilled Technical Careers: A Targeted Research Review and Framework for Future Research Open
Workforce development and career and technical education (CTE) have long provided reliable pathways to middle skill jobs and a gateway to the middle class. Given recent changes in middle skills jobs, the education landscape, and federal po…
View article: Improving Workforce Readiness Skills Among Community College Adult Learners Through New Technologies:
Improving Workforce Readiness Skills Among Community College Adult Learners Through New Technologies: Open
Employers report struggles to find work-ready candidates who possess a desired combination of job-specific technical, general math and reading, and social and behavioral skills. Community colleges are ideally situated to address these shor…
View article: A Psychological Approach to Human Capital
A Psychological Approach to Human Capital Open
The concept of human capital originated in economics over 200 years ago. The current paper takes a novel approach to human capital by interpreting it from a psychological perspective. We divide human capital into 2 domains: traditional and…
View article: Who r u?: On the (in)accuracy of incumbent-based estimates of range restriction in criterion-related and differential validity research.
Who r u?: On the (in)accuracy of incumbent-based estimates of range restriction in criterion-related and differential validity research. Open
Correcting validity estimates for selection procedures for range restriction typically involves comparing variance in predictor scores between all job applicants and applicants who were selected. However, some research on criterion-related…
View article: Anticipating College Enrollment: Adapting <i><scp>SuccessNavigator</scp></i><sup>®</sup> for High School Students
Anticipating College Enrollment: Adapting <i><span>SuccessNavigator</span></i><sup>®</sup> for High School Students Open
In this report, we describe the development of an extension of the SuccessNavigator ® assessment for late high school settings. We discuss the assessment's conceptualization and support its application with psychometric studies detailing s…
View article: Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 42 No. 1 (March 2015)
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 42 No. 1 (March 2015) Open
Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change: Goals, Issues and Trajectories in China, India, Brazil and South Africa. James Midgley and David Piachaud (Eds.). Reviewed by Tanusha Raniga